Die Banking: Why Recovery Time Matters
Nothing is meant to stay in storage forever, even if sometimes the timetable is so extensive it may sometimes seem that way. Even radioactive nuclear waste storage, which must remain stored and buried for at…
Aerospace OEMs: How to Choose a Small Business for Government Contract Set-Asides
At some point in your life, you’ve likely been faced with a hypothetical scenario involving money that must be spent. “If you had $100,000,” for example, “and you had to spend it on a new…
Understanding Our Electronic Components Search Engine Vetting Process
When making the decision to become an uploader on the world’s largest free electronic component search engine, the first question many suppliers have about our platform is in regards to our vetting process. How do…
Aerospace OEMs and Overcoming the Challenge of Annualized Budgets
As the new year approached, one of the last stories of 2018 reported that the Pentagon awarded Boeing a $400 million contract to cover engineering services for their B-1 and B-52 bombers. This is but…
What Our Trending Charts Can Tell Us About the Electronic Components Market
22 million unique parts. 5,000 suppliers. Over 50 billion data points. This is data we cite often at Partstat, not for bravado, but because it properly illustrates the sheer scale of our Big Data, which…
OEMs: It’s Time to Make Your Working Capital Work for You
The act of saving working capital is a critical piece of any OEM’s long-term strategy, and it’s a common indicator for how well positioned the company is for future success. It also represents a failsafe…